diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index bfa428538b6b..d10e21604558 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 13.x IS SLOW:
 	world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality
 	at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
 
+20201223:
+	The FreeBSD project has migrated from Subversion to Git. Temporary
+	instructions can be found at
+	https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd-git-docs/blob/main/src-cvt.md
+	and other documents in that repo.
+
 20201216:
 	The services database has been updated to cover more of the basic
 	services expected in a modern system. The database is big enough